...motion control add-ons that cost hundreds and don't support current games. Thus, they will get minimal support from users and developers. Remember, the most successful add-on of all time was the Sega CD, which only sold 500,000 units. Microsoft and Sony would probably be thrilled to get even half that in this economy.
Microsoft has announced that they have sold around 1 million Kinnects in the first 10 days. They're hoping for 5 million by the Christmas holiday.
I'd say they're doing alright on an install base so far.
Well, submarines are neither cheap, nor easy. Nor are cruise missiles launched from them.
Sorry, not only can they be launched from submarines, they have been launched from submarines since the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict.
Star Trek is an example of that done poorly. So they invent a transporter which is a matter disassembler/assembler. Well, what if you took something apart and put it back together differently? Use simple feedstocks to create complex products. Ok, that's the replicator. Kudos for them thinking of that. But this means you could also reverse aging by disassembling a person and reassembling them younger. This would completely change society and is overlooked by the writers.
I'm going to hate myself for knowing this, but there was an episode in TNG, Season 6: "Rascals", where Picard and others were turned into children by a transporter accident.
Iron Man is never really meant to be serious science. It may be founded in it, but it is really about a regular guy (compared to other superheroes) creating a suit that turns him into technological titan. Invulnerability, strength, speed, and as a side effect, saves/sustains his life. A lot of his traditional enemies are US Cold War enemies. Iron Man is very much a product of the science and engineering boom the US created as a reaction to the Soviets launching Sputnik.
The projector alternately projects right-eye frames and left-eye frames 144 times per second.[6] It circularly polarizes these frames, clockwise for the right eye and counterclockwise for the left eye. A push-pull electro-optical liquid crystal modulator called a ZScreen is placed immediately in front of the projector lens to switch polarization. The audience wears spectacles with oppositely circularly polarized lenses to ensure each eye sees only its designated frame, even if the head is tilted. In RealD Cinema, each frame is projected three times to reduce flicker, a system called triple flash.
The Open Source flashlight: Luminescent Lurefish.
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